MsElectric
Active Member
There's nothing in the contract that indicates it can be transferred by contacting Tesla. To me it looks like it is not transferable to a private buyer. Why would they not want to transfer it? Is there some legal issue?
There is no legal issue as virtually every other car manufacturer allows you to transfer an extended warranty to someone else if your car is sold. There is usually a small administrative fee for the warranty transfer and that is it. Incidentally Tesla used to have such a provision.
This policy is horrible for Tesla owners. As their cars reach 50,000 miles or beyond they may have a hard time selling their cars private party even if hey had bought an ESA warranty from Tesla as it seems since November of 2015 the ESA is no longer transferable to someone who buys the car. Prior to that, Tesla had a convoluted process for transferring the warranty and now they've made it even worse by even taking that away.
This to me seems like something put in place to make sure Tesla owners will not compete with Tesla's own CPO sales. Why else would they essentially prohibit the transfer of ESA warranties when once there was such a process.